 Occupancy is the taking possession of those things which before belonged to nobody;" and "whatever movables are found upon the surface of the earth, or in the sea, and are unclaimed by any owner, are supposed to be abandoned by the last proprietor, and...  Pacific Islands Pilot - Page 751893Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...captive k. -i 2. THUS again, whatever moveables are found upon the surface of the earth, or in the sea, and are unclaimed by any owner, are supposed to be...as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or fortunate finder, unless they fall within the description of waifs, or estrays, or wreck, or hidden... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1820 - 758 pages
...returned it into the common stock, without any intention of reclaiming it; and therefore it belongs, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or finder unless the owner appear and assert his right, which then proves that the loss was by accident, and... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...acquired by occupancy. Thus, whatever moveables are found upon the surface of the earth, or in the sea, and are unclaimed by any owner, are supposed to be abandoned by the last proprietor ; and therefore belong, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or fortunate finder, unless they fall... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...'2. THUS again, whatever moveables are found upon the surface of the earth, or in the sea, and sire unclaimed by any owner, are supposed to be abandoned...as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or fortunate finder, unless they fall within the description of waifs or estrays, or wreck, or hidden... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...returned it into the common stock, without any intention of reclaiming it: and therefore it belongs, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or finder ; unless the owner appear and assert his right, which then proves that the loss was by accident, and... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...returned it into the common stock, without any intention of reclaiming it : and therefore it belongs, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or finder ; unless the owner appear and assert his right, which then proves that the loss was by accident, and... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...surface of the earth, or in the sea, and are unclaimed by any in the sea;' ov, mr, are su j >] loscil to be abandoned by the last proprietor; and, as such, are returned into the common stock and mas? of things: and therefore they belong, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or fortunate... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - Maryland - 1837 - 732 pages
...as the Roman civil law, whatever moveables are found upon the surface of the earth, or in the sea, and are unclaimed by any owner, are supposed to be...as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or fortunate finder. The common law of England was the same, unless such goods or moveables fell within... | |
 | Numismatics - 1837 - 318 pages
...returned it into the common stock, without any intention of leclaiming it, and therefore it belongs, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or finder, unless the owner appears and asserts his right, which then proves that the loss was by accident, and... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...returned it into the common stock, without any intention of reclaiming it : and therefore it belongs, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant, or finder (14), unless [*296] the owner appear and assert his right, which "then proves that the loss was by... | |
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